Thursday, December 14, 2006

Too much to ask

Etna Township faces another controversy
Two trustees accused of violating Ohio Open Meetings Act
By CHAD KLIMACK
Advocate Reporter

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Here what my opinion is on it.

OMG! Can we not make a mountain out of a mole hill or what? Sunshine law! I’ll tell Mr. Godwin where he can stick his complaining and I guarantee it won’t see any sunshine there. Somebody bloody well should be talking to Wal-mart. We don’t want another zoning mess like the bank, going in across the street to it. Somebody needs to find out what they are planning and make it public. All the residents have are rumors and half stories published in the paper.

With the new proposal that moves all *current* general business in the township to the GB-1 classification. (GB-1 will include all commercial or mixed-use buildings that are no more than 65,000 gross square feet in floor area. All current business will fall into that category, because none exceed the floor-space category. GB-2 will be for developments that have no more than 130,000 gross square feet of floor space. GB-3 will have no limit on building size.) It is no wonder what Wal-mart is doing meeting with Zoning Inspector Stan Robinson and his supervisor Knapp. Wal-mart’s existing zoning permit for building a store of 203,000 square feet which would put it in GB-3 category. I’ve not seen any zoning maps that say were the new GB-2 and GB-3 areas are.

Each Trustee needs to find out, what Wal-mart is doing, when it doing it and how. Mr. Burkholder needs to get his butt on the ball and find out what is going on too. He needed to be a passive observer in this fact-gathering setting in the “Spirt of”, what he was elected to do as trustee. We need three trustees that can work together, talk together and conduct township duties together.